The Trouble With New Taxes
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
No matter how many different kinds there might be or how much they charge, the trouble with taxes is that it won’t be enough. Those who decide the spending (state, national or locally) will never have enough to satisfy their spending desires…something else will always be worthy…the things that receive public dollars now will always require more to be spent. While saying “No” to taxes might be a narrow perspective to take – it seems that it might be the only route to fiscal responsibility for those we elect to be our representatives.
The Nevada 2009 Legislature serves as a perfect example. Faced with a private sector economy in the throes of a downturn, layoffs, business failures, foreclosures – Legislators increased spending (in spite of spinning the message to say they made massive cuts) and then bumped taxes by nearly a Billion more. They also used one-shot federal stimulus money and robbed from local governments to patch spending holes that they wouldn’t reduce.
While reading an editorial opinion that suggested the secret to the federal government’s desire to pay for socialized medical care would be more taxes (probably in the form of a national sales tax…since there isn’t one of those types of taxes yet) it dawned on me that until we just give all we’ve got over to government spenders there will not be an end to them wanting to get more. Whether it’s for our good – or for the good of those who don’t have enough, government spenders (elected or bureaucrats) believe that we simply owe them…so hand it over.
Although the idea of simply signing a “No Taxes” pledge shouldn’t be an automatic way of getting elected for someone who will represent us, those who haven’t, can’t or won’t stop spending should be voted out of office any time there’s a chance to do so. If we un-elected those who think our personal checkbooks are theirs to use as they have, the need to create new taxes will be somewhat reduced.
Afterall, no matter how many different kinds there might be or how much they charge, the trouble with taxes is that it won’t be enough.
No matter how many different kinds there might be or how much they charge, the trouble with taxes is that it won’t be enough. Those who decide the spending (state, national or locally) will never have enough to satisfy their spending desires…something else will always be worthy…the things that receive public dollars now will always require more to be spent. While saying “No” to taxes might be a narrow perspective to take – it seems that it might be the only route to fiscal responsibility for those we elect to be our representatives.
The Nevada 2009 Legislature serves as a perfect example. Faced with a private sector economy in the throes of a downturn, layoffs, business failures, foreclosures – Legislators increased spending (in spite of spinning the message to say they made massive cuts) and then bumped taxes by nearly a Billion more. They also used one-shot federal stimulus money and robbed from local governments to patch spending holes that they wouldn’t reduce.
While reading an editorial opinion that suggested the secret to the federal government’s desire to pay for socialized medical care would be more taxes (probably in the form of a national sales tax…since there isn’t one of those types of taxes yet) it dawned on me that until we just give all we’ve got over to government spenders there will not be an end to them wanting to get more. Whether it’s for our good – or for the good of those who don’t have enough, government spenders (elected or bureaucrats) believe that we simply owe them…so hand it over.
Although the idea of simply signing a “No Taxes” pledge shouldn’t be an automatic way of getting elected for someone who will represent us, those who haven’t, can’t or won’t stop spending should be voted out of office any time there’s a chance to do so. If we un-elected those who think our personal checkbooks are theirs to use as they have, the need to create new taxes will be somewhat reduced.
Afterall, no matter how many different kinds there might be or how much they charge, the trouble with taxes is that it won’t be enough.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 10/13/2009 4:29 AM 
Categories: Government
Tags: Nevada Taxes Government Spending Congress
Categories: Government
Tags: Nevada Taxes Government Spending Congress
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